Quotes of Employment - somelinesforyou

“ As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job. ”

- Roseanne Barr

“ The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. ”

- Galen

“ Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ The more one works, the more willing one is to work. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“ They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. ”

- Bible

“ For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application — why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. ”

- Howard Nemerov

“ If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished — there will always be work you haven't done. ”

- Julia Child

“ The rather since every man is the son of his own works. ”

- Cervantes

“ Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ”

- St. Francis of Assisi

“ The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again. ”

- Liv Ullmann

“ Anyone can do the job when things are going right. ”

- Ernest K. Gann

“ The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize that it is play. ”

- Alan Watts

“ Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Your mind is what makes everything else work. ”

- Kareem Abdul Jabbar

“ Get the job done. ”

- Don Shula

“ It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else. ”

- Ray Prince

“ In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this. ”

- La Monte Young

“ Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own. ”

- Laura Bush

“ And still be doing, never done. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Each natural agent works but to this end, — To render that it works on like itself. ”

- George Chapman

“ Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent. ”

- Dean Martin

“ I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. ”

- Larry Wall

“ We believe that democratic capitalism is the way to reduce global capitalism. It is basic. Jobs, jobs, jobs... make it possible for people to improve their standards of living. ”

- Steve Forbes

“ It sounds so cruel but some of these telethons - even though you're doing it completely for charity - are very important gigs for your career. ”

- Robert Thompson
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